Approximately 15% of U.S. adults have chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to the CDC. Early stage treatment can slow CKD progression through the five stages of severity. For patients whose kidney disease continues to the fifth stage — called end-stage renal...

When you hear the words, “Lie on your side and count backward from 100,” the hardest part of having a colonoscopy screening test for colorectal cancer (CRC) is over. The CDC recommends a colonoscopy today or everyone between the age of 50 to 75 (starting...

Sous vide cooking introduced the concept of precision cooking to many home chefs. When you cook sous vide — or under a vacuum — you heat water to a precise temperature to cook food in a vacuum-sealed bag. Stanford University School of Medicine’s...

Suicide is the second most frequent cause of death among people aged 10 to 34 in the U.S. and the fourth most frequent cause of death for people between the ages of 34 and 54, according to the CDC. We have written about programs that use AI to help children make wiser...

The opioid crisis has increased interest in non-pharmacological solutions for pain management, and one of the promising technologies for this application is virtual reality (VR). One problem is that the required hardware — the goggles and other supporting...

A cancer diagnosis is one of the scariest bits of information one can ever receive. In 2018, the National Cancer Institute estimated that during the year doctors would diagnose 1,735,530 new cases of cancer. The organization also estimated that 609,640 people would...